[bksvol-discuss] Re: Does anyone know...
- From: "Chela Robles" <cdrobles693@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:26:05 -0700
So you want to get rid of the vertical line is that it?
If this is it, then here's how:
Microsoft Word: removing vertical lines
There is a line in my document that I can't delete because I can't
select it. How did it get there, and what can I do about it?
Although there are other possibilities, most likely what you're dealing with
is the paragraph border that Word creates when you type three or more
hyphens (-), underscore characters (_), equals signs (=),asterisks (*),
tildes (~), or hash signs (#), and press Enter. By default these characters
are converted to a thin, thick, double, broken, zigzag, or thick-and-thin
border at the bottom of a paragraph.
To make matters more confusing, this border is applied to the paragraph
before the one where you typed the hyphens, underscores, or equals signs.
To remove this “line,” select the paragraph above it and remove all the
borders from it as follows:
a.. In Word 2003 and earlier, go to the Format | Borders and Shading
dialog, and click the preset picture for “None.” Alternatively, click the
down arrow beside the Borders button on the Formatting or Tables and Borders
toolbar and choose the last (No Border) option in the palette.
b.. In Word 2007, on the Home tab, locate the Paragraph group. The bottom
right button is the Borders button; click the arrow beside it and select No
Border.
c.. In any version, you can simply click in the offending paragraph and
press Ctrl+Q, which resets the paragraph formatting to the default for the
style (which doesn’t include borders). This, however, will remove any other
direct paragraph formatting as well as the border.
Note: If you've pressed Enter several times trying to get rid of the line,
you will merely have applied the border formatting to all the paragraphs you
added, as well as to the original one. This won't be obvious, because when
several consecutive paragraphs have the same “Bottom Border” formatting
applied to them, the border only appears below the last of them (Word takes
“bottom” literally). So If you then remove the border formatting from the
paragraph that has the line below it, the line will move up one paragraph.
The trick is to select all the affected paragraphs and either press Ctrl+Q
or choose No Border.
To prevent this from happening again, you need to disable “Automatic
borders.”
a.. In Word 2003 and earlier, go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options |
AutoFormat As You Type and clear the check box for “Borders” or “Border
lines” under “Apply as you type.”
b.. In Word 2007, Office Button | Word Options | Proofing | AutoCorrect
Options | AutoFormat As You Type and clear the check box for “Border lines”
under “Apply as you type.”
It is a good idea to turn off most of the options on the “AutoFormat” and
“AutoFormat As You Type” tabs of AutoCorrect Options. Unusual marks may
appear in a Word document
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SYMPTOMS
When you work in a Microsoft Word document, unusual marks may appear in the
docu...
When you work in a Microsoft Word document, unusual marks may appear in the
document.
CAUSE
This issue may occur if you turn on the option to show formatting marks in
the d...
This issue may occur if you turn on the option to show formatting marks in
the document.
The formatting marks that you may see in a Word document are listed in the
following table.
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Formatting mark How the mark appears in a document
Tab character A tab character appears as an arrow (?).
Space A space appears as a dot between words (·).
Nonbreaking space A nonbreaking space appears as a raised circle
between words (?).
A nonbreaking space is a space that is used to prevent multiple words
from breaking if they appear at the end of a line of text. For example, you
can prevent the words "Microsoft Office" from breaking onto two separate
lines. When you use a nonbreaking space between the words, both words are
moved to the start of the next line. To insert a nonbreaking space, press
CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR.
Text-wrapping break A text-wrapping break appears as an arrow that has
a curved tail and that is enclosed in vertical bars.
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A text-wrapping break indicates that there is text that wraps
underneath an object, such as a picture.
Page break A page break appears as a dotted line in normal view.
Section break A section break appears as two dotted lines when the
document contains different types of section-level formatting.
Field code brace If field codes are displayed, a field code brace
appears as curly braces ({ }).
For example, a field code brace may be displayed as {DOCPROPERTY
"Manager" \* Upper}, a hyperlink may appear as {HYPERLINK
"mailto:abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"} instead of abc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, or a table of
contents may appear as {TOC\o"1-3"\h\z\u} instead of the actual table of
contents.
Paragraph mark A paragraph mark looks similar to a backward letter "P"
(¶).
A paragraph mark appears at the end of a paragraph and contains
paragraph formatting information.
Manual line break A manual line break appears as a down arrow.
A manual line break appears at the end of a line when you press
SHIFT+ENTER.
Hidden Text If formatting marks are turned on, text that is formatted
as hidden is indicated by dotted lines under the text.
End of cell marker Holds formatting for the cell.
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Optional hyphen A hyphen that is used to control where a word or
phrase breaks if it falls at the end of a line.
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Nonbreaking hyphen A hyphen that is used to prevent a hyphenated word,
number, or phrase from breaking if it falls at the end of the line.
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RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, turn off the option to show formatting marks. To do
this,...
To resolve this issue, turn off the option to show formatting marks. To do
this, use one of the following methods:
a.. On the Standard toolbar, click the Show/Hide button.
b.. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the View tab. Under
Formatting marks, click to clear the check boxes for the marks that you do
not want to appear in the document.
c.. Press CTRL+SHIFT+*.
MORE INFORMATION
Word 2003, Word 2002, Word 2000, and Word 97Besides the marks that are
listed in...
Word 2003, Word 2002, Word 2000, and Word 97
Besides the marks that are listed in the "Cause" section, the following
marks may also appear in a document in any version of Word that is listed in
the "Applies to" section.
Red or green wavy underlines in the body text and in the headers and footers
Word includes a feature that lets you automatically check the spelling and
the grammar in a document. When this feature is turned on, Word uses wavy
red underlines to indicate possible spelling errors. Additionally, Word uses
wavy green underlines to indicate possible grammatical errors.
To turn off this feature, follow these steps:
1.. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2.. On the Spelling & Grammar tab, click to clear the Check spelling as
you type check box and the Check grammar as you type check box.
Red wavy underlines in the header of an e-mail message
Word automatically checks the names in the header of an e-mail message
against the names in the Address Book. If Word finds multiple names that
match the name that you type, a red wavy line appears under the name. The
red wavy underline indicates that you must choose one name from the matching
names. To select the name that you want, right-click the underlined name,
and then click the correct name.
Purple underlines in the body text
By default, followed hyperlinks appear as purple, underlined text.
Red underlines in the body text and vertical bars in the margin
By default, newly inserted text is marked by a single red underline or a
double red underline when you use the Track Changes feature. Vertical bars,
called changed lines, may also appear in the left margin or right margin of
the text that contains the tracked changes.
Word 2003 and Word 2002
Additionally, the following marks may also appear in a Microsoft Office Word
2003 document or in a Microsoft Word 2002 document.
Blue underlines in the body text
Word includes a feature that lets you automatically check the consistency of
your formatting. When this feature is turned on, Word uses wavy blue
underlines to indicate possible instances of inconsistent formatting. To
turn off this feature, follow these steps:
1.. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2.. On the Edit tab, click to clear the Mark formatting inconsistencies
check box.
Purple dotted underlines in the body text and in the headers and footers
A smart tag is indicated by a purple dotted underline. You can use smart
tags to perform actions in Word that you would ordinarily start another
program to do.
Word 2003
Additionally, the following marks may also appear in a Word 2003 document.
Purple wavy underlines in the body text and wavy vertical lines in the
margin
In an XML document, Word uses purple wavy underlines and wavy vertical lines
to indicate XML structure that does not follow the XML schema that is
attached to the document.
Note XML features are available only in Microsoft Office Professional
Edition 2003 and in stand-alone versions of Word 2003. However, you can use
the Save As command to save a document as XML in any version of Word 2003.
I'm not sure how this will do with an RTF file but if it works threat if not
then write back I know it has gotta be out there somewhere.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:26 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Does anyone know...
Dear Mike and Booksharian Friends,
I'm repeating a question I asked a week or so ago because I haven't
figured out a solution. In case it would help, I've investigated the
answers in this thread, but my problem remains.
When working in Word 2003, there is a vertical line portioning off about a
tenth of the screen. In that tall, slim area the word Normal appears over
and over again strung down every page of RTF files I get from the check
out page, new documents I start, and all of my old, saved word documents.
I've wandered around the menus and can't identify a way to get rid of this
useless column of Normal's.
On the plus side, those normal's don't seem to change what I'm doing. it
has occurred to me to wonder if they are in the files I check in when I'm
finished proofreading a book. Jaws isn't reading them with the PC or jaws
cursors, , but that could be because I don't know how to get the cursor
into that space.
I would be very thankful to make this phenomenon vanish.
Always with love,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Does anyone know...
This is one of Word's auto formatting tricks. I've pretty much turned
off all the autoformatting because most of them interfere with proofing
for bookshare. Sadly, there is no all encompassing, turn off auto
formatting button.
You go under the tools menu, then auto correct options, which gives you a
dialog with a bunch of tabs, each of which displays a page of check
boxes. You uncheck a box to remove a feature. These are things like
change straight quotes to smart quotes, change 1st to 1 with the st
superscript, change 1/2 to the single symbol version of 1/2.
And one of these just says borders. I'm pretty sure this is the one that
turns three asterisks to a line that you can't delete. You can however
select the area around the line, go to the format menu, select borders
and shading, then in the dialog that comes up, select the box that
indicates no borders (sometimes you have to select a border, then select
the no border to get this to work, I don't know why). That should
eliminate the line.
If there are keyboard equivalents for all this mess they would have to be
long and complicated (as my description of how I do it as a sighted
person is long and complicated).
Hope this helps someone.
Misha
Valerie Maples wrote:
Hi, Pamela!
What you have is when you type three asterisks and hit enter. You can
undo it immediately with CTRL Z, but otherwise you need to copy and
paste the page in to a plain text notepad file and then copy above it
and paste into the original document and then the bottom, with a blank
line between and return to type the three asterisks.
I would love to find a simpler way and am more than open to suggestions
if others have better workarounds.
Thanks!
Valerie
On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Pamela Hoffard wrote:
Does anyone know what this square-dotted line is? When I put my
cursor over it, it gives me a double line with an arrow above and
below the lines? I'm using Word 2007 to do the proofing. I
can't delete it the normal ways and I have all formatting marks
turned on.
Has anybody encountered this before??
This is what it looks like:
We'll be waiting a long time for that perfect husband, and we'll
be awfully disappointed during the waiting.
Here’s the difference:
***
You wish for a relationship
you dream of a husband
you long for a perfect man.
***
You wish for some cash
you dream of more money
you long for enough money to take away all your problems
Thanks for any help,
Pam
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